10 FOOLISH Game Mistakes We're Too Embarrassed to Admit

[@siklara]

My awful gamer problem is the constant dread that I'm accidentally going in the right direction, thus potentially hitting a point of no return and missing collectibles, or optional cool stuff. Whenever I start a new level in any game, the first thing I do is turn around. :D

[@ArcaneSorceror]

Agreed. Anything cool over here? Dammit, it's plot progression!

[@sozaj]

@@siklara me too!

[@treflippa2]

Definitely me. lol I feel like a majority of my other gamer friends probably question on the inside why my playthrough times of games is often 2x longer than there's. My need to explore everything and try to get collectibles is a huge part of why. lol

[@S.Sparrow]

Same!!

[@thatBIGzephyr]

Absolute facts, " this looks like the correct path let me go this way then" and walk straight into a cutscene 😂😂😂

[@ARIXANDRE]

Pressing the wrong button and punching my horse in RDR 2. EVERYTIME. Thanks Jake and GR team.

[@SilverBrumby165]

Me too - that poor horse.

[@afibuffygirl]

I've never played rdr2 but I watched my wife play when it first released....very first thing she did was accidentally punch her horse in the mouth and I was dying of laughter.

[@senjusa]

whoever decided its a good idea to bind "F" to punching was definitely not fond of horses, THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING

[@jesterday2222]

Bahahaha yes!

[@TheRealUcanUwill]

RDR2 was first game I played on console in like 20 years. I hate controller, I was so bad at it, I remember trying to buy meat from butcher, but I pressed one of the trigger buttons by accident and just shot him dead... P.S. I will get internet hate, but I will say it - I don't like RDR2, like at all, I do not think its very good game, here I said it. Great characters and cutscenes, but the game itself is bad.

[@Nairozet]

Re-installing a game that STILL gives that feeling of awesome in your head. Yet, as soon as you're 2 minutes into the game, you remember why you uninstalled it.

[@alphasaiph553]

Omg this!!!! Started to happen around 2023 to me I really wanna play it or see a clip online and play it then, when I’m into it I realize I’m not enjoying it

[@WizardLanga]

That's definitely mirrors edge

[@naoisebrosnan3121]

I'm about to do that right now

[@bilal6865]

For me its forza games😂

[@librast]

Demon souls and returnal for me😂

[@Tallness1000]

Regarding #5. I had a college roommate who got fallout 4 at the same time as me. He did none of the main or side quests after realizing he could just build a settlement (single) and farm resources to make drugs and sell them at the city.

[@kiriuxeosa8716]

Pro gamer strats

[@KeithElliott-zd8cx]

@@kiriuxeosa8716 i mean, kinda? Quit playing the game to make drugs, to make caps, for little reason, maybe not. It'd be like downloading a mod for a farming house in skyrim (have), to be able to grow tomatoes and stuff. "oh, vegi soup on demand, nice" (why) "nah, just wanted a farming sim"

[@PeteBaldwin]

Mine is downloading Skyrim for the hundredth time, spending hours and hours downloading mods and all their dependancies, messing about with the load order to fix bugs, searching on nexus forums to find ways to make mods compatible with each other and then when it's finally working smoothly, playing for 5 minutes and realising I'm completely bored of Skyrim. Then I have to delete everything to free up some space and in 6 months time, I think "hmmm... I wonder if there's any cool new Skyrim mods out..."

[@The_Azure_]

And that's why I started using the Wabbajack (mod packs).

[@dillionedmonds5736]

Just buy a thumb drive and store your game and mods on there.

[@ko-fl8hu]

Wow. That's me with New Vegas AND Skyrim. I spend so much time installing mods for the game, troubleshooting, making sure it all works... then I uninstall it not long after. I've only beaten both games once, and that was with mods. Every other time... nope. Just quit halfway through or barely 5 minutes in. Then I reinstall it many months later. It's definitely a vicious cycle... lol.

[@adambaldwin1557]

I will not apologize for using guides. I spent enough time in high school and college putting too many hours into figuring out puzzles or blindly running around a dungeon trying to figure it out on my own. Now that I have a full time job and adult responsibilities, spending hours on a single puzzle in an Assassin's Creed or Zelda game that is already bloated with content just isn't worth it anymore.

[@BlueBlue-j4w]

Turth

[@KeithElliott-zd8cx]

same, kinda. Got lost in xenogears for a week, because i was allowed to stop talking to a captain of a boat, who went to a bar i hadn't seen. Fucked off for 2 hours to dick around, couldn't find him for like 10 on/off searches, till i tried literally talking to literally everyone and every door.

[@TheBlindMarksmen]

I feel it, beat dark souls 1 and 2 without help because I didn't have a smart phone or computer. Tried again in 3 and gave up so fast trying to figure out where the hidden shit was. Don't have that extra time from my youth anymore.

[@manusyakenyal1894]

same, totally agree

[@gabrielemilio7267]

Is just stup1d, it is a sight challnge, I rather use my time solving puzzles or in a hard combat. That said, I love indicators from the botton of my heart

[@bewarethechameleon]

i feel sad that we have to purchase to unlock new characters these days. remember 'def jam: fight for NYC'? that game had 67 playable characters, 20 unlockable arenas and 9 match types and you could unlock them all just by winning matches in the game and using tokens you earned

[@agirlnamedmichael1670]

On the other side of the coin is how OW2 who recently made it so you just get every character automatically. I didn't mind choosing which character I wanted to unlock and then doing a bit of grinding for it.

[@jamieslingsby9907]

I agree, there is an old ps1 game called Ergheiz, it has an arcade mode and a completely seperate rpg style mode. All the various extra characters you unlock come from completing the arcade mode for the other characters and then more unlock from completing the arcade mode for those characters. Eg complete arcade mode for all the female characters unlocks the female protagonist from the rpg mode (and vice versa for the male) complete the arcade mode for all the final fantasy characters in the game, unlocks iirc vincent valentine. Or soul calibur 3, completing the story mode for the characters unlocks outfits and weapon options for any characters you create for its own separate story mode

[@DJTheUnwanted]

I refuse to buy characters, if I buy a game like mortal kombat etc I'll only buy it when the ultimate edition is at least 60%off I still don't have Darkseid for Injustice 2

[@ryansanderson23]

I remember when to unlock attachments in COD you had to level the one weapon, now you have to level multiple weapons to unlock attachments for the one weapon you want to use, it's pretty dumb

[@dopefiendchronicles2974]

SF6 had me so pissed off like I can't even select Ken 😒

[@0osha]

2:27 FOMO= FEAR Of Missing Out not Feeling....

[@gustogustav]

I guess that's a mistake they are too embarrassed to admit

[@drgonzo123]

Both work.

[@Chrisbajs]

I also reacted to that. But the more I think about it, it actually makes sense. FOMO is more a persistent feeling, not a fear per se, of missing out on something. So I think maybe it was deliberate by Gameranx.

[@Buffgamingrs]

⁠@@ChrisbajsFear is a feeling

[@jamesbump4765]

I bet you correct strangers in public expecting gratitude huh

[@joaoloureiro7854]

Spending countless hours making the character looking perfect just to cover it with a helmet 3 min later is my favourite part!

[@happymonkeycircle3838]

And it being a single player game so no one else can see it

[@cosmicshatter91]

Thank god that some games now have hide helmet in them, I am a culprit of spending 40mins to an hr on a character, but if I know I can't hide the helmet, its a 5 to 10min character.

[@TheRealUcanUwill]

@@happymonkeycircle3838 I booted Sims 4 for the first time yesterday. Spent maybe an hour plus making my sim, bought a land, and then realized I dont want to play anymore lol.

[@TheRealUcanUwill]

@@cosmicshatter91 How the hell BG3 does not have hide helmet feature (it only has hide all the armor feature)? I am pretty sure Divinity had ability to hide helmet. Any time I played that game, there are scenes where NPCs recognize my party members after not seeing them for years, but all of them have like insane stupid helmets on, how do you even recognize that person :D

[@professorplum3858]

Looking at you Skyrim VR. Just pick your class, and start. Spent hours creating my character just to find out there is no third person mode.

[@ChristopherMathieu]

@12:00 I played Cyberpunk 2077 *once*. No spoilers, no walkthroughs, no build guides. ONE save. If I messed up on a mission, oh well. I went in with a specific mindset for V to react with, and stuck with it. Even turned down fixer jobs because I didn't WANT to do the job. And, somehow, I managed to unlock the super-secret ending that requires very specific triggers and conversation choices. That was my one play-through, that was my story. I'm not going to go for an alternate end.

[@drgonzo123]

I have the habit of playing the same game whenever I have time instead of something new in my backlog. For me, it’s just too easy to boot up GT7 and race a few daily races, or fix up and test a certain car. I listen to podcasts while racing, it’s just my comfort zone.

[@Fyrebirdi]

I'm a cr*p gamer. If it wasn't for guides I'd be stuck at the opening menu 😂

[@TheRealUcanUwill]

I imagining you playing NBA 2k, but reading a guide that you have a shotclock and you need to take a shot in 24 seocnds :D

[@Aloyus_Knight]

You don't need to sensor crap since its NOT a swear word.

[@privacyvalued4134]

@@Aloyus_Knight Maybe it's "crip." OP is gangsta 'n KZbin be censorin' dawg.

[@DjiryDoucoure]

That’s my current reason for not playing Elden Ring 😂😂😂. One day maybe…

[@upgradeyourawareness3539]

a crip gamer? never knew gangs got involved in gaming territory too lol

[@jorkhachatryan317]

I remember spending more than 30 minutes customizing my character from Cyberpunk, not thinking that I would play an FPS game.

[@GG22n]

Well people literally buy skins in fps games.

[@TheRealUcanUwill]

You didn't know Cyperpunk was first person game, what? I mean, most of us had no idea those preview cutscenes would be gone and we would only see our character in a mirror or on a bike or in a menu, but we knew its FPS game, come on haha.

[@TheRealUcanUwill]

@@GG22n yeah, but I imagine only in Multiplayer ones. Buying skins in multiplayer is sad, but makes sense at least.

[@f1jones544]

I knew it was FPS on my first and second 100% playthroughs. Didn't stop me from spending several hours customizing my character both times.

[@vineousvondrake2456]

it's about how you want to present yourself to the game world lol

[@Clow00]

1:26 i thought my sh*tty internet was crashing xD

[@omgitsjavi4443]

He got us all bro... I had to check the video time and your comment popped up 😅

[@TheFreshSoundsFlorida]

Same. 😂

[@vineousvondrake2456]

yeah a lot of us have been there I realized pretty quick he was just demonstrating how bugged to hell first day release games are these days

[@Roin0525]

😂

[@MifuneShio]

As a RPG/JRPG player and someone who is obsessed over collecting everything i know the pain of getting burnt out and changing game only to forget what i was doing on the main game and restarting it causing the cycle to repeat itself

[@kiriuxeosa8716]

Me with evey rpg I've recently bought I need like a 3 day vacation with a fridge full of drinks and some food in the microwave in order to cement some progress

[@bobbuilder155]

I never restart, i look at the games and figure out the game controls and moves and then i continue where i left of. If i do start over it is only because some asshole hacker might have deleted my saved files from marlow briggs or oddessy to the west, yes it happened to those 2 games. But the rest of my games i just continue from last save.

[@Curly28head]

You forgot to mention that some gamers save the game create chaos or choose a more violent decision just to see what happens and then go back to the saved file

[@DavidCowie2022]

That's only a foolish mistake if you forget the "make a save first" part.

[@XGothWolfX]

"Let me just quicksave and see what happens"

[@rockero1313]

that's not a mistake, that's a must do 😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@dirksavage1041]

I'll never admit to any of this foolishness!

[@TheRealUcanUwill]

I can at least say that I never bought skins. Granted, I just do not play games that usually has that stuff, but more and more games have it. MARVEL Midnight Suns has it, and I played a ton of that game, but if you think I am buying Spiderman skin for 5 Euros or smth, you are wrong. Thinking of reinstalling that game on Steamdeck, I see its steamdeck verified.

[@gthakur17]

But can you sleep after

[@KingChambers]

Tis gaming treason of the highest order and I will have no part in it.

[@bobbuilder155]

I will admit to what this video is talking about, because it is not relatable to me.

[@richtheobald4390]

Jake: PCs can be upgraded very easily My hardline watercooled rig from 4 years ago: Go on, try it... I dare you!

[@kiriuxeosa8716]

Sure It'll just cost $50,000 And don't forget a new graphics card, your last one is already 3 months old and is starting to smell funny

[@benq7593]

Rips out cooling lines, few paper towels, sticks in a couple of fans. Upgraded!

[@rankcolour8780]

For loops it's not the difficulty or costs it's time it takes. Like a full day to strip and rebuild and a day sandwiched in between that to flush your rads and clean your blocks and fittings and bend any new runs you need to.

[@thanosandnobill3789]

Extra: Keep buying a game knowing its developers, managers or CEOs publicly shame, ridicule or bully their fanbase and customers.

[@ulmico]

A fan of Ubisoft?

[@Bobby-z6c]

Honestly if the game is fun I'll play it. May not pay full price for it.............

[@secretlybeastly6965]

LOOKING AT YOU CALL OF DUTY

[@b-raffmusic9144]

Imagine being a grown ass human and being upset you were “bullied” into spending your money. 😂😂😂😂 when will fan bases stop being such pussies and either buy the game or not and leave it at that

[@TheRealUcanUwill]

@@secretlybeastly6965 To me, its sports games. Do not get me wrong, I am a nerd, but from childhood I been hooked on sports games. But I am dinosaur at this point who only plays single player manager type modes still, I have thousands of hours in FIFA and NBA 2k, but I can at least say that I never even tried MyCareer or Ultimate team garbage. I hate myself for being addicted to sports games, I know how cynical those products are, but I just love a manager fantasy and I keep playing NBA 2k now, I aint buying this years, I still enjoy my current campaign and I might stick with it for a couple of years.

[@yittmashups]

6:00 The original Final Fantasy 7 did this feature well. You could press the Select button to turn guides on where to go (little colored triangle arrows) on and off when needed/wanted.

[@WolfwoodXIII]

Today I learned

[@oyaji_sus6882]

Me with visual aids: These yellow markers are so annoying! Me without visual aids: Man, where the hell should I go? What can I say? I'm an idiot.

[@Dovah_Slayer]

I don't mind visual aids I hate when the guide character spoils the puzzle solution immediately (MIMIR)

[@Diablo_Himself]

I hate when a character in the game tells you what buttons to press. Like in Spyro "Hey, Spyro, did you know you can press the A button to jump.."

[@SkeetersCousin]

God of War 2018 made having the visual aid markers the most sense. I loved that it was Faye marking their path, it felt like like it was part of the lore and not just the developers holding your hand.

[@thepickle2535]

If you're 50 hours into a game that you don't like and still hoping that it gets better or it HAS to get better simply because the amount of time you sunk into it, is foolish. You know within the first TEN hours whether you will or will not like the game. Forcing yourself to keep playing is just Sunk Cost Fallacy and you should really cut your losses and play something else that you WILL enjoy!

[@Kryxx07]

This is the number one thing that improved my gaming life. If a game gets boring or tedious, I drop it SO fast, now. I've learned that many games can be super fun for 10-20 hours, but get boring for the other 30. And it's okay to accept the fun is over and move on.

[@RAWDEAL064]

I apply the same logic to anime. If it doesn't grab me in the first episode, upto a max of three, I drop it. I don't care if "it gets good at episode 5!" Or the second season. Nope. Not doing it. Blame Blood+ for teaching me how to not stick with shit to the end

[@jensenat]

As someone who decided to start a new seed in Minecraft last weekend as a way to have some relaxed fun instead of think of my backlog, I felt this video spoke personally to me in more than one way. Glad to see we all share these experiences too while gaming.

[@tubebammy]

Nothing like realizing you going in the right direction, so you immediately turn around and go in the wrong direction so that you can possibly get a cool treasure, find an easter egg, or just collect extra coins. I remember teaching my nephew when he was young about this, cuz he was constantly going in the right direction, so I told him "Nephew, if you think you're going in the right direction, Im just gonna tell ya that ya going in the wrong direction. You ALWAYS search for extra treasures first" He was confused, but then he eventually figured out what I meant lol. Also... I have GOT to know if I can take fall damage or not. I dont know why but its a must!

[@richardvenables619]

I hate when I accidentally go the right way in games.

[@georgehazard1986]

Growing up, my younger brother always insisted upon finding out if you could go in the water. For years. Every game i rented, if there was water, it was "go in the water." "Why?" "Cause i wanna see if you can."

[@Mopantsu]

@@georgehazard1986 I hate invisible walls. If I can't jump over something to the sides or even in front of me it annoys the hell out of me. Looking at you Plague Tale.

[@RAWDEAL064]

Fall damage, can I swim, and i shoot this, and is there friendly fire are all questions that have to be answered nearly immediately. Some games you already know the answer. Like, I _know_ there's no fall damage in every single borderlands and that there will be in every single Far Cry. I don't need to test it. Helldivers. First thing I did was shoot a teammate, fall off a cliff, and (eventually) go in the water

[@greenbow7888]

Saving loot or upgrade material for later and what-if. I just finished Lords of the Fallen, and have three Deralium chunks unused. Used one for a longsword at +10, and had a crossbow at +9, so had three chunks left over. ... I realised it would be better to save the chunks for weapons that would upgrade with higher end stats. Then as you do, think I worked out which would be the best weapon had to upgrade. Then just never upgraded any other weapons. Then googled about NG+ in LotF, and saw enemies are harder. Figured 'sod-that', so will never use the chunks.

[@migsplays28]

Downloads games for free … goes and plays spiderman 2 instead just to swing around for 2 hours

[@TheREVOLUTION690]

I love how relatable this channel has been to find good things to watch. It helps since I sadly don’t have the same time to play video games as I once did before 😭

[@gameranxTV]

Hey I’m glad you’re enjoying the content :)

[@sozaj]

Choosing the wrong builds in RPGs because I'm terrible at figuring out the systems.

[@ArcaneSorceror]

Best advice I can give for extensive build games, is learn the system first. Play a few hours first, get used to how the game works, then roll a proper character.

[@lobstercoco]

I've been an IT for 30 years, and I have built a lot of pricy computers where my clients are like, "Oh, I cannot wait to get home and play XXX game on ultra-high settings," and when I do see them again, I'll ask "How's the gaming rig?" They would be like, " To be honest, I haven't had much time to play games on it. I mostly watch KZbin or browse Facebook." lol

[@Diablo_Himself]

Weirdly this is true, but also stupid. If they have time to watch KZbin or browse Facebook, they have time to play games. You're an IT? What's that then?

[@lobstercoco]

@Diablo_Himself I'm in NACS admin video games take a little bit more commitment by the time I get home I don't really have the mental capacity to sit down and play video games like that so I watch KZbin to sort of just unwind. Like right now I have a little more time to myself because I'm starting my own business so I started live streaming and I'm starting to make content on KZbin while I work on my business.

[@Diablo_Himself]

@@lobstercoco That sounds quite cool. I'm attempting to crowdfund a business idea, but I need a LOT of money. I am a computer fixer/builder, and it's all self-taught.

[@lobstercoco]

@Diablo_Himself yeah same here are learn how to work on computers when I was about 5 I built my first computer when I was about 7 and went through a path of destroying a bunch of computers as I was growing up 😹 everything I learned was self-taught through and through no KZbin just trial and error and then I went to school to just kind of get a little more education

[@lobstercoco]

@Diablo_Himself but I love hearing that keep pushing forward keep reading a lot best way to sharpen your skills

[@tobi_versace]

Buying $30+ games and spending an hour in them and moving on to something else. Quitting a game just before beating it to have an excuse to return to it later.

[@Kairac112]

guilty of the latter, never finished bloodborne

[@cosmicshatter91]

I have 30 games or so that I know I am close to finishing, but can't bring myself to finishing, so I uninstall them and think, well maybe i'll finish it 1 day... Well the back long of those games keeps going up.

[@Wildemut]

I hate finishing games cause I always end up not playing them until years later. Except Elden ring and satisfactory. I love those two games.

[@AsmodeusMictian]

"The Day One Purchase" Only one I've ever done, which was technically a pre-order even... was Doom 2016. No regerts at all ;-) That is actually a great game and I"m happy that I bought it. I've also never done that again.

[@norfairaffair]

2:29 Fear. Pizza’s on you Jacque Baldino!

[@niveketihw1897]

0:36 "you've taken the day off work" Yah I wish I could take a day off work to play a videogame. Last time that was viable was probably 22 years ago.

[@littlebear274]

lol an awful lot of these can be solved by simply not having a lot of free time or money.

[@malkaviian]

Me: "i'm free of guilty here" Jake: "The day on purchase" *shows cyberpunk* Me: "ok, fair enough, i did it"

[@user-uu9ru3de1y]

Getting lost is part of an adventure. If you're not getting lost then are you even adventuring?

[@lotionfactory7407]

...nothing's more foolish than pre-ordering Battlefield 2042...

[@butcheredalive]

That was me, and after that I'm never pre-ordering a game again. I'll get it 6 months to a year down the line when the version we should've gotten is on sale

[@TheRealUcanUwill]

The only game I preordered was Ghost of Tsushima. I mainly bought PS4 just cause of that game and Spiderman. It was my first and only console since SEGA genesis. I got lucky on those as those games were amazing. But I do buy games day one sometimes, Cyberpunk... I never was more exited for the game as I was for Cyberpunk. Now, I also have very very strong depression, so I do not get exited for anything, but man, I thought Cyberpunk will be bigger than Jesus, and it was crushing disappointment. Even now after fixes, its still not the game that it supposed to be.

[@Eldritchpi]

Pre-ordered the collector edition of anthem...

[@AtreidesT660]

​@@Eldritchpi😂

[@zionavey1673]

​@@Eldritchpi😢😂

[@Etb323]

16:37 Not true. I deleted Starfield after 6 hours and accepted my 70 USD loss.

[@Travybear1989]

I did the same thing with Spiderman on Steam a few years ago, played for an hour tops and realized the game was a Ubisoft collect-a-thon with a lot of stupid cinematics and moved on. I tried to do the same for Cyberpunk a year or so prior but I ended up giving the game too much time and was out $60. I ended up forcing myself to play through about 70% of the story over the next 3-4 months but I can't say that I enjoyed it whatsoever.

[@Trikkypac]

Number 2 could not be less true for me. I live by this motto: Life is hard, gaming should be easy. I ALWAYS pick the easiest difficulty. I've been playing Madden for years, but I still stack my team with all stars, set it to rookie, and stomp teams 150-0😂 If a game does not have an easy setting I almost definitely will not play it.

[@sneakysnake4363]

Same, and if it turns out to be too easy I just change it to the next hardest level.

[@richardvenables619]

​@@sneakysnake4363 Exactly. I like a bit of a challenge, but if I'm losing/dying every single time I try anything, how is that fun? I play games to relax.

[@andrewyp6724]

In my first playthrough, I try to play the devs' "intended" way. Easy difficulty, or even hard difficulty generally is not the intended way, where it either limits or removes certain interaction, mechanic of the game. Normal difficulty is usually the default setting. And even then, often times the game is quite easy.

[@Travybear1989]

13:52 I guess I'm a big baby then as well. I haven't cared about playing on hard difficulty or trophies/achievements since I was a sweaty teenager. I was married by the time I was 20 and renting with my wife who was pregnant at the time with bills to pay and working 60 hour weeks. I didn't have the time or desire to get "good" at a game because those handful of hours I had a week to just relax and destress after work were golden to me. Now I'm 35 years-old and yeah, life isn't quite as hectic now as I own a home now, my wife works part-time, my hours are down to a steady 40/week, and our son only has a few years left until he is 18 so I have a bit more free time. Even then, I still rarely play above normal difficulty because it just isn't fun to me. I've dealt with enough trials in real life to care about killing some dragon in Dark Souls with a wooden stick or whatever.

[@Mopantsu]

Options are good.

[@TheEmbessyNetwork]

I just decided to start playing my backlog after realizing I have two weeks off from work for vacation and this video popped up on my feed at the perfect time. I'm replaying Kingdom Hearts 3 AND starting up Cyberpunk and also realized that I have to finish Guardians Of The Galaxy and I'm already overwhelmed...

[@chrisrudolf9839]

Regarding No 7: As game graphics have evolved, good and noticable visual hints where to go and what to interact with have become more and more important. Because modern games are often overloaded with visible objects and details to make the environment make more realistic and many unnecessary fluff objects are actually interactible or at least somewhat reactive, but that makes it also more difficult to identify the correct path and the objects that are actually interactive - Because the game still ISN'T realistic in the way that you could touch everyting you see and do whatever you feel makes sense, you still have to interact with often very specific objects and arrive at specific targets to progress in the game. One pet peeve I have with many more recent games that have highly mobile characters that are very good at climbing or at making impossible jumps is when they do a bad job at showing the player what routes they actually could take by making objects unclimbable or impossible to jump over that really look like you could easily climb them or jump over them with your character's skills that you have seen in action. But instead you helplessly drop down to where you started or worse, drop into the deadly chasm that you wanted to jump over and grab that ledge on the other side that looks perfectly grabable, but really isn't. The white/yellow paint thing is a bit of a blunt way to do it, but at least it's clear. Older games didn't have that problem at much, because the graphics were more simplistic and there was much less decorative fluff, so objects that you could interact with automatically stood out more. You'll have much less problem to spot a pluckable healing herb in a meadow when the meadow texture is mostly just green painted flat floor and the interactable plants are the only thing that sticks out, than when the meadow is lush, almost realistic looking grass and wildflowers. I'm not saying that the way games were "back in the old days" is necessarily better, I love games with stunning semi-realistic visuals, but they do come with a challenge in finding your way (and a challenge for good level design to guide the player without breaking the immersion by being too blunt about it).

[@randykeith1203]

In GoT the items for upgrades sometimes blend in with the environment too well enough I'm glad they put a shimmer on them to beable to stand out

[@Diablo_Himself]

This kinda just tells me that older games are better than newer ones.

[@Azrahns]

Guilty of all but 2 things listed no doubt... Try collecting all the cars in Grand Turismo 7... (My first racing style game). I spent several days trying to solve a puzzle and learned that I could look things up, turns out it was a design glitch, ever since then I won't spend an overt amount of time solving a puzzle or figuring something out because of the glitch factor. Once I know what needs to be done to solve a puzzle and it won't work, or can't figure out how to accomplish it I look it up just in case. Sad thing is? Close to 80% of the time? It is an actual glitch that hasn't been fixed etc. At any rate, this video is one that needs a part 2 or a "Before you buy" style series. The human impulse idiocy syndrome. Great vid :-)

[@Roschach96]

00:22 Number 10 - Day 1 Purchase 02:14 Number 9 - Cosmetic Only Battle Pass FOMO 04:04 Number 8 - Free Games downloaded and not played 05:24 Number 7 - Getting lost without indicators in games 07:19 Number 6 - Upgrading PC but just playing old games 08:36 Number 5 - Restarting "Easy to start but hard to keep going" games 10:08 Number 4 - Time consuming character creation 11:51 Number 3 - Looking up guides before attempting interacting with the game 13:39 Number 2 - Thinking every difficulty is for everyone 15:34 Number 1 - Playing games we don't actually really want to play

[@TheDJMeyer85]

I’ve grown to really hate the amount of options in character creation, like I get why people love it but I get a quarter of the way through and I’m just like “I want to play the game!” But I did love that Dragons Dogma 2 released the character creation before the actual game release

[@speedingoffence]

Sometimes games don't make it clear if you're SUPPOSED to be thinking about something. I spent three hours in the underground in Elden Ring to figure out how to get to the town up top. Turns out you can't at that point. What did I learn? Either don't spend more than a cursory amount of time looking, or check online.

[@ryanmisale]

Forgetting the controls in the game and having a brutal misinput. Happens to us all.

[@ledgicyt2929]

The biggest gaming mistake I ever made and still upset about is playing on a autosave file with all my progress for DBZ Kakarot. It's upsetting because I went to start a new game and lost the original file with all the hard work put in to it.

[@MRPABL]

ouch man sorry 😞

[@DreTheCoolest]

Bummer

[@middleagedmutantninjaturtle18]

love you Jake, no FOMO

[@BENch_Gaming44444]

Smash Bros is one of the few games with DLC characters that doesn't show them as locked at the bottom of the roster. I appreciate that.

[@andreaw2053]

My boyfriend and I get around the issue of wanting to use guides by looking stuff up for eachother when one of us is playing. It stops you from being taken out of the game and also from spoiling too much accidentally. Pretty good system.

[@xandersander6369]

13:47 when i was a kid i did not know english so everytime i replayed Jazz Jackrabbit 2 i always did it on the hardest difficulty because it had animations for every setting (easy was a baby Jazz rabbit and Hard was a Jazz rabbit full of muscles with tattoos). I always tought that it is an error because no matter what i chose, the character looked the same :(

[@EazyCheeze]

Hahaha these are awesome... Ten sometimes mutually exclusive gamer mindsets all in one video! Gotta say I look up puzzle solutions sometimes before I start, as well as character interactions - I'm autistic and don't do social stuff well, so that's understandable, right? Especially for a game that doesn't let us save scum :) Need to re-watch sometime to revisit more of these. Ahhh what a GREAT idea for a video... You always ALWAYS ALWAYS HIT, Gameranx! Take care and have a great day!

[@Ali107]

My worst gaming problem is that I treat programming and game development as "gaming". I rarely ever play games normally.

[@vcdgamer]

Same.

[@mikemccarthy5661]

Been watching for years!!! LOVE this ****ing Channel!!!

[@alexissmith5589]

I will never understand gamers who have to play on the hardest difficulty, It's like I'll be having fun getting through the game while they're stuck on the tutorial.

[@BlueBlue-j4w]

Some of us don't die unless the game is set to hardest difficulty. We all have different preferences. But people shouldn't set games on hardest difficulty, if they don't have the skills required.

[@vineousvondrake2456]

it's always a good idea to play on the lowest difficulty the first time you ever play a game that way you can get a feel for how well you might do in the next level up lol

[@BlueBlue-j4w]

@@vineousvondrake2456 for me, it takes the mystery of the game away. Takes the surprises out of the game. To each their own.

[@vineousvondrake2456]

@@BlueBlue-j4w there are some games even on their lowest difficulty that can still kick your ass a bit managed to buy RE5 a couple years ago and I couldn't even make it past the first fight and the first time I played Dark Souls that first boss kept flattening my ass in 2 hits didn't know that you're supposed to run from his ass the first time you enter the room

[@BlueBlue-j4w]

@@vineousvondrake2456 True, RE5 had that level system. I remember playing on normal to the marshes. Grinded my gun levels, then went back to beginning and set game to hard. I remember someone told me it was the best way to play it. Same thing on B03, just gotta do some early grinding, to get the gear required to play through on veteran.

[@boringbiblestudy1813]

Thank you, Day 1 Gamers. Your impulsivity and impatience underwrites me getting the best version of the game when I get around to it for 10% of the original cost five years later.

[@legitnoob59]

There used to be a time when day one purchases and pre orders were a sign of luxury and mannn they felt sooo good. I still remember purchasing doom and uncharted games but dude just now it’s a mistake. Every single game is incomplete… almost as if they ran out of budget and this is their fundraiser especially gat trilogy definitive, cyberpunk and almost all Ubisoft games. They are just sooo much of a regret. I hope the next gta brings back the trend that should be there

[@loyloygeralde554]

There was also a time where there was no such thing as day one or pre orders. You would get the full game with hidden extra content that which kept you playing for longer.

[@legitnoob59]

@@loyloygeralde554 I get it dude

[@Krotas_DeityofConflicts]

what i love about Fallout is that you can save in the middle of dialogues, sometimes i'd hear out every response. loool wish could've done it in CP 2077, i've used google too much because wanting to know the response. Sometimes would know more than i want to eventually.

[@haijynkz5160]

a bonus foolish thing: buying to satisfy nostalgia. Remakes, reboots, or "classic collections". Resident Evil, FF, Horizon ZD, The Last of Us...

[@jakebrady5531]

My solution to choice based games: just commit to whatever you do. The surprise is more exciting than just a video spoiling it. If you want to see the other outcomes, just play them yourself. Even after watching them through KZbin clips/videos, I still like getting them for myself after getting a different outcome, to say I got both. It feels good actually.

[@Jigsaw407]

I haven't played Starfield for a year but intend to jump back in. It's gonna be interesting.

[@iSuperVamp]

I just did that, wasn't interesting at all. Good luck )

[@PeteBaldwin]

You'll very quickly remember why you haven't played Starfield for a year....

[@Jigsaw407]

@@PeteBaldwin Oh, i know very well why: because other games getting released were much more interesting to me. I had good time with Starfield, though, disappointing as it my have been.

[@hollieBlu303]

As a Class of '94 Doom! Fanatic I can relate. Bought a brand new laptop a year ago specifically for new games. Immediately went in for a complete re-run of the Doom Series 😂 ..never gets old!😊

[@PizzaCatSamurai]

In my experience physical games aren't what they used to be. Having to copy and install most if not all data from either 1 or multiple discs. What happened to reading from the media itself?

[@sneakysnake4363]

YES! This bugs the hell out of me too!

[@NIMRODakaNIMROD]

Another EXTREMELY relatable video. But oh my goodness, did the part starting at 09:59 trigger my OCD...

[@bbqwarchips1256]

Anyone enjoying gta4 in 2024? Just picked it up and having very good time

[@Pizzerinoo]

Yessir! Just recently beat the complete edition. (Not my first time playing - but been a while.

[@bradmays1171]

Just bought it on an Xbox sale and I scooped all the DLC too. In 2024, I’ve put more time into that game than I have since it came out so long ago. I swear to god, though, Roman makes me want to throw that phone into the river sometimes 🤣😂

[@Tera-plex]

​@@bradmays1171 but don't you wanna go bowling?

[@norfairaffair]

My first platinum back in 2009 and still playing Online to this day!

[@Elpekador]

literally started playing it last week on my ps3

[@SaucyDangles]

my worst day 1 purchases have been Battlefield 2042 early access, New World, CoD Vanguard & MW2 (2), Cyberpunk, Halo Infinite and Starfield

[@FLACOBERRY]

I hate looking up guides, it spoils the surprise. I HATE THAT ELDEN RING'S QUESTS ARE IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT GUIDES!!!!

[@amyhoard1222]

I never bought that game knowing it would be impossible to make it more than 2 min into the game without dying constantly, but from the gamers that love challenging games, I hear it is a good game.

[@gb1reinwald]

Thank you for number 1, I am definitely guilty of giving up on games and having a bad conscience about it. You helped me find more peace with that. It's fine not to continue those games.

[@GavinWilliams-p6k]

Hording a certain item in a game like crafting materials or currency and reaching the end game any never using any of it.

[@KeithElliott-zd8cx]

tbh never using ANY currency's on you. Stockpiling elixirs 'just in case' i get, but not spending a dime, eh.

[@GavinWilliams-p6k]

@KeithElliott-zd8cx didn't say never just said hording

[@ian8945]

"Loading up Chrono Trigger on Steam" got me. Well done Jake.

[@Rollin_free]

Haha #10 well I'm sitting here waiting for my digital copy of the Silent Hill 2 remake to be playable 😅

[@bigbawk3003]

Congrats on the 8.1M subs!!! I feel like it was just yesterday when you guys were hitting 2M🎉🎉🎉

[@Catalinddm]

09:10 - that's exactly what happened to me... Lmao.

[@greenbow7888]

Have done that twice with Star Wars: Squadrons.

[@adamwest8711]

Goddam OG Destiny. That download took f o r e v e r.

[@nonutnewplayer1507]

I turn visual aid off cause i thought it was to boost graphics and cause my frames😢

[@likebubba]

why do I love Gameranx again? because they are gamers as well 😂 I might tick every box here

[@joshgiesbrecht]

I had the ‘played a game I hated’ when I started Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I forced myself to play for the first 10 or so hours, and almost gave up multiple times. It drove me nuts, I figured I’d just wasted my money. Then the 11th hour came, and I fell the fuck in love with it and couldn’t put it down. To this day it’s in my top 3 or 4 favourite games. If anyone reading this gave up after 7 hours, stick with it, I swear it will click eventually and you’ll fall in love with it just as I did. One of the best turnarounds in history for me.

[@Trikkypac]

You may be right, I have had similar experiences too. But nowadays, my backlog is way too big to spend 10 hours on a game I am not enjoying. I just cast it aside and look for something I enjoy from the start. To be fair, I gave up on Kingdom Come in about hour 1😂

[@joshgiesbrecht]

@@Trikkypac I'm usually like that too, nothing wrong with it. But I'd heard such good reviews I figured there's gotta be gold somewhere lol, so stuck with it. Only game I've ever had zero fun with for 9-10 hours 😂

[@aaronpendleton2335]

I'm definitely a perpetrator of #3. I don't use guides to look up puzzles and things like that, but if I'm playing a game where "your choice has consequences" I will usually look things up before I choose. I try not too, but I don't want to miss out on a better reward, or miss out on an entire quest line because I chose the wrong one. Idk why either, because those kind of games I usually play again and do the opposite of what I did the first time anyway. Just can't help myself

[@anishghosh7202]

Here first

[@bretth342]

I feel like the urge to check guides to ensure we don't get stuck with a bad decision is 100% the result of all those hours spent trying to save Aerith

[@Darxide23]

Not sure how many games I've preordered in my life. I've regretted none of them. Cyberpunk 2077 on day 1 was still amazing. My first playthrough is still my favorite and the most epic one. And #5 called me out on The Witcher 3. I was so close to the end of the game, but I had some shit go down in my life that I had to take a break from gaming and buckle down to focus on university and when I got back... I didn't know where to go and my muscle memory was dead. I died to the simplest enemies because I forgot the intricate combat. It was soul crushing.

[@KeithElliott-zd8cx]

i like day 1 cyberpunk more than 2.0...

[@chzy_hokage2998]

The moment you mentioned God of War: Ragnarok i IMMEDIATELY knew what part you were going to show 😂 i was stuck there for soooo long!!

[@zackw7609]

As someone who has had a PS5 since the year it came out but have not played it yet because of my PS4 backlog, but I also continue to go back to stuff like Endless Sky, Guild Wars 2, and Genshin, so many of these points resonate so much

[@kallimarii1509]

I feel incredibly called out especially the entry with BG3 😂 I've restarted my run sooo many times the furthest I've gotten is completing act 2...took a month long break...forgot everything and restarted my 11th playthrough 😅 I relate to everything in this video, soo it's mortifying but comforting that it's a universal feeling hahaha

[@gfear24]

I'm not ashamed to admit that when I get a game with different difficulty modes, I always do my first playthrough on the easiest mode. The reason is to get me acquainted with the mechanics and the flow of the game. Once I complete it on the easiest mode, I go through it again on the next level up, and so on.

[@MrCocoH1]

1:27 I love how the engine sound got stuck in a note that was on key with the song 😂

[@evilreiko]

4:11 Paladins, my fav addiction, appeared on gameranx for a split second :)

[@stefanb910]

The “Before You Buy” plug 😍😍😍

[@720jlconner]

Wish you guys would bring back the glitch videos. All those clips were golden.

[@gameranxTV]

Hey thanks for the suggestion we’ll consider it :D

[@stanettiels7367]

🔥🔥Jakey’s on fire🔥🔥

[@jonathansands3304]

FOMO isn’t just *Feeling* Of Missing Out, it’s FEAR. It’s one of the many psychological tricks marketers know how to exploit to influence our purchasing. It’s the same reason something is selling “for a limited time only”; if you’re afraid the opportunity will pass, you’re more likely to buy quickly without thinking it through.

[@dustinmillar120]

The yellow paint argument always annoys me because, like you said, most people that complain about it also complain about getting lost as soon as it's gone. I'm a fan of having a toggle switch though, seems like a good compromise haha

[@weisburgh]

This video is very cathartic, lol. I now know I am not alone, Ty gameranx

[@gameranxTV]

Hey we appreciate you!

[@digitaloracle3079]

Yeah….I’m definitely guilty of day 1 purchases, if not pre-ordering. But, I fall into the trope of far more money than time and since I vastly appreciate having gaming as my primary hobby, even though I have countless copies of games I haven’t touched for several years or more, I like to think of it as voting with my wallet all the downstream effects of that. As you eluded to, the one benefit I have of often not playing a game for years after it was released is that I can avoid most of the bugs that would otherwise break the game, wasting what little time I can conjure up to play something. Plus, being able to have certain DLC packs during the playthrough is often a nice bonus. Guides are likely the thing I feel the worst about. I give an honest try at a puzzle or what to do next, but the dilemma I face is that if I spend too much time trying to figure out what’s next, that only contributes to the time it’ll be before I complete the game, get onto the next, etc. No, I’m not treating any of this as a chore, but the point remains. It’s like why I don’t play souls-like games. I have great respect for those games, but I don’t have the time to invest into figuring out how to beat an enemy each and every time.

[@TFASplbtttt]

Haven't bought a new game in 3(?) years. My backlog goes back a decade, and I have seen one, maybe 2 games that make me want them

[@bradpawelkiewicz7450]

I am so happy cyberpunk got fixed. I literally can't stop playing it! I've played through it like 4 times now lol

[@stepanovicboro]

I loved the division 1, had like 1800 hours on it and when the division 2 came out i took a 2 week vacation because i was so hyped about it. Learned my lesson

[@pontiacw7]

I try to fix 2 of these mistakes. With a growing list of back log games, i play most all of them on "easy" mode so I can actually get thru the games "story mode" and experience it rather than getting stuck trying to get past a certain part dozens of times and wasting a lot of time that I don't seem to have anymore, at least like I used too.

[@adrielklein189]

This video is basically "Old man confused with modern videogames", and I can totally relate to it.

[@kanefredericks7663]

Wanting to go back to a game to finish it, but it's been so long you've forgotten the controls and now are stuck between having an incomplete game or having to learn how to play it all over again to finish it 😵‍💫🎮